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Author : Frans van Coetsem,Herbert L. Kufner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111549040
Toward a Grammar of Proto-Germanic.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027209849
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two further volumes project to complete this series: I. Texts, and II. Maps and Commentaries. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The publication of the two further volumes (I. Texts; II. Maps and Commentaries) has been canceled.
Author : Donald A. Ringe
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199552290
This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. The focus throughout the book is on linguistic structure. In the course of his exposition Professor Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. Written to be intelligible to those with a background in modern linguistic theory, the first volume in Don Ringe's A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, the history of English, and historical linguists. The next volume in the History will consider the development of Proto-Germanic into Old English. Subsequent volumes will describe the attested history of English from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present.
Author : Don Ringe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192511188
This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides a detailed account of the grammar of Proto-Germanic. In the course of his exposition Don Ringe draws on a long tradition of work on many languages, including Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Gothic, and Old Norse. This second edition has been significantly revised to provide a more in-depth account of Proto-Indo-European, with further exploration of disputed points; it has also been updated to include new developments in the field, particularly in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European verb and nominal inflection. The author also reconsiders some of his original approaches to specific linguistic changes and their relative chronology based on his recent research. This new edition of the first volume in A Linguistic History of English will be of central interest to all scholars and students of comparative Indo-European and Germanic linguistics, the history of English, and historical linguistics more generally. The second volume, The Development of Old English by Don Ringe and Ann Taylor, was published by OUP in 2014 (paperback 2016)
Author : Joseph Voyles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004657236
Authored by a well-respected authority in German linguistics, this book offers intensive scholarly analysis, recent discoveries, new methodologies, and important reinterpretations with regard to the emergence of Germanic features. It presents a much-needed scholarly discussion of the phonological and morphological history of early German from Indo-European to 800 A.D. Each chapter presents text samples as well as a discussion of the models and theories proposed regarding the emergence of many features of Germanic. It clearly identifies the problem areas of comparative Germanic with resolutions of many outstanding questions. It includes prototypical text examples for each dialect.
Author : Robert L. Kyes,Paul T. Roberge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027209812
Author : Joseph B. Voyles
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 012728270X
Offers intensive scholarly analysis, discoveries, methodologies, and important reinterpretations with regard to the emergence of Germanic features. This book presents a discussion of the phonological and morphological history of early German from Indo-European to 800 A D. It contains text samples as well as a discussion of the models and theories.
Author : Robert Dennis Fulk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN : 9027263124
Fulk's Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.
Author : Guus Kroonen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042032934
The n-stems are an intriguing part of Proto-Germanic morphology. Unlike any other noun class, the n-stems have roots that are characterized by systematic consonant and vowel alternations across the different Germanic dialects. This monograph represents a diachronic investigation of this root variation. It traces back the Germanic n-stems to their Indo-European origin, and clarifies their formal characteristics by an interaction of sound law and analogy. This book therefore is not just an attempt to account for the typology of the Germanic n-stems, but also a case study of the impact that sound change may have on the evolution of morphology and derivation.
Author : George Walkden
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198712299
This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317290490
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274144
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two further volumes project to complete this series: I. Texts, and II. Maps and Commentaries. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The publication of the two further volumes (I. Texts; II. Maps and Commentaries) has been canceled.
Author : Elmer H. Antonsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111411583
Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions.
Author : Rosina Lippi-Green,Joe Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236418
This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil Jacobs, Edgar Polomé, and David Fertig). The authors start from current theoretical discussions in syntactic and diachronic research, using theory to address longstanding but still current problems in Germanic linguistics, from clitic placement and verb-second phenomena through the Verschärfung to the Twaddellian view of umlaut. Each contribution relies on careful sifting of data situated in the relevant comparative context, Germanic, Indo-European and cross-linguistic.
Author : Martin Syrett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272850
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether inflectional or derivational, and decides whether any reliable conclusions can be drawn from it. It is argued that too many widely accepted views are based on insufficient and poor methodology, and that too little note has been taken of the fact that viable alternatives exist alongside most of our theories about proto-Norse. In particular, a new realisation that the inscriptions are written in a less than perfect orthographic system, a notion that many scholars have often been unwilling to accept, leads to some interesting new interpretations of the data.
